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* In base backup, only include our own tablespace version directory.Heikki Linnakangas2013-03-25
| | | | | | | | If you have clusters of different versions pointing to the same tablespace location, we would incorrectly include all the data belonging to the other versions, too. Fixes bug #7986, reported by Sergey Burladyan.
* Fix problems with incomplete attempt to prohibit OIDS with MVs.Kevin Grittner2013-03-22
| | | | | | | Problem with assertion failure in restoring from pg_dump output reported by Joachim Wieland. Review and suggestions by Tom Lane and Robert Haas.
* Suppress uninitialized-variable warning in new checksum code.Tom Lane2013-03-22
| | | | Some compilers understand that this coding is safe, and some don't.
* Add new README file for pages/checksumsSimon Riggs2013-03-22
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* Allow I/O reliability checks using 16-bit checksumsSimon Riggs2013-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Checksums are set immediately prior to flush out of shared buffers and checked when pages are read in again. Hint bit setting will require full page write when block is dirtied, which causes various infrastructure changes. Extensive comments, docs and README. WARNING message thrown if checksum fails on non-all zeroes page; ERROR thrown but can be disabled with ignore_checksum_failure = on. Feature enabled by an initdb option, since transition from option off to option on is long and complex and has not yet been implemented. Default is not to use checksums. Checksum used is WAL CRC-32 truncated to 16-bits. Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis, Greg Smith Wide input and assistance from many community members. Thank you.
* Change commit_delay to be SUSET for 9.3+Simon Riggs2013-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | Prior to 9.3 the commit_delay affected only the current user, whereas now only the group leader waits while holding the WALWriteLock. Deliberate or accidental settings to a poor value could seriously degrade performance for all users. Privileges may be delegated by SECURITY DEFINER functions for anyone that needs per-user settings in real situations. Request for change from Peter Geoghegan
* Redo postgres_fdw's planner code so it can handle parameterized paths.Tom Lane2013-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | I wasn't going to ship this without having at least some example of how to do that. This version isn't terribly bright; in particular it won't consider any combinations of multiple join clauses. Given the cost of executing a remote EXPLAIN, I'm not sure we want to be very aggressive about doing that, anyway. In support of this, refactor generate_implied_equalities_for_indexcol so that it can be used to extract equivalence clauses that aren't necessarily tied to an index.
* Fix "element <@ range" cost estimation.Heikki Linnakangas2013-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The statistics-based cost estimation patch for range types broke that, by incorrectly assuming that the left operand of all range oeprators is a range. That lead to a "type x is not a range type" error. Because it took so long for anyone to notice, add a regression test for that case. We still don't do proper statistics-based cost estimation for that, so you just get a default constant estimate. We should look into implementing that, but this patch at least fixes the regression. Spotted by Tom Lane, when testing query from Josh Berkus.
* Allow extracting machine-readable object identityAlvaro Herrera2013-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | Introduce pg_identify_object(oid,oid,int4), which is similar in spirit to pg_describe_object but instead produces a row of machine-readable information to uniquely identify the given object, without resorting to OIDs or other internal representation. This is intended to be used in the event trigger implementation, to report objects being operated on; but it has usefulness of its own. Catalog version bumped because of the new function.
* Remove PageSetTLI and rename pd_tli to pd_checksumSimon Riggs2013-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove use of PageSetTLI() from all page manipulation functions and adjust README to indicate change in the way we make changes to pages. Repurpose those bytes into the pd_checksum field and explain how that works in comments about page header. Refactoring ahead of actual feature patch which would make use of the checksum field, arriving later. Jeff Davis, with comments and doc changes by Simon Riggs Direction suggested by Robert Haas; many others providing review comments.
* Extend object-access hook machinery to support post-alter events.Robert Haas2013-03-17
| | | | | | | This also slightly widens the scope of what we support in terms of post-create events. KaiGai Kohei, with a few changes, mostly to the comments, by me
* Improve signal-handler lockout mechanism in timeout.c.Tom Lane2013-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Rather than doing a fairly-expensive setitimer() call to prevent interrupts from happening, let's just invent a simple boolean flag that the signal handler is required to check. This is not only faster but considerably more robust than before, since the previous code effectively assumed that only ITIMER_REAL events would ever fire the SIGALRM handler, which is obviously something that can be broken easily by third-party code. Zoltán Böszörményi and Tom Lane
* Move pqsignal() to libpgport.Tom Lane2013-03-17
| | | | | | | | | We had two copies of this function in the backend and libpq, which was already pretty bogus, but it turns out that we need it in some other programs that don't use libpq (such as pg_test_fsync). So put it where it probably should have been all along. The signal-mask-initialization support in src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c stays where it is, though, since we only need that in the backend.
* Add lock_timeout configuration parameter.Tom Lane2013-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This GUC allows limiting the time spent waiting to acquire any one heavyweight lock. In support of this, improve the recently-added timeout infrastructure to permit efficiently enabling or disabling multiple timeouts at once. That reduces the performance hit from turning on lock_timeout, though it's still not zero. Zoltán Böszörményi, reviewed by Tom Lane, Stephen Frost, and Hari Babu
* Improve error reporting in code that checks for buffer refcount leaks.Tom Lane2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | Formerly we just Assert'ed that each refcount was zero, which was quick and easy but failed to provide a good overview of what was wrong. Change the code so that we'll call PrintBufferLeakWarning() for each buffer with a nonzero refcount, and then Assert at the end of the loop. This costs nothing in runtime and might ease diagnosis of some bugs. Greg Smith, reviewed by Satoshi Nagayasu, further tweaked by me
* Extend format() to handle field width and left/right alignment.Tom Lane2013-03-14
| | | | | | This change adds some more standard sprintf() functionality to format(). Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Dean Rasheed and Kyotaro Horiguchi
* Avoid inserting no-op Limit plan nodes.Tom Lane2013-03-14
| | | | | This was discussed in connection with the patch to avoid inserting no-op Result nodes, but not actually implemented therein.
* Revert unnecessary change in MV call to checkRuleResultList().Kevin Grittner2013-03-14
| | | | | | | | | Due to a misreading of the function's comment block, there was an unneeded change to a call in rewriteDefine.c. There is, in fact no reason to pass false for a MV; it should be true just like a view. Fixes issue pointed out by Tom Lane
* Avoid inserting Result nodes that only compute identity projections.Tom Lane2013-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The planner sometimes inserts Result nodes to perform column projections (ie, arbitrary scalar calculations) above plan nodes that lack projection logic of their own. However, we did that even if the lower plan node was in fact producing the required column set already; which is a pretty common case given the popularity of "SELECT * FROM ...". Measurements show that the useless plan node adds non-negligible overhead, especially when there are many columns in the result. So add a check to avoid inserting a Result node unless there's something useful for it to do. There are a couple of remaining places where unnecessary Result nodes could get inserted, but they are (a) much less performance-critical, and (b) coded in such a way that it's hard to avoid inserting a Result, because the desired tlist is changed on-the-fly in subsequent logic. We'll leave those alone for now. Kyotaro Horiguchi; reviewed and further hacked on by Amit Kapila and Tom Lane.
* Change the way UESCAPE is lexed, to reduce the size of the flex tables.Heikki Linnakangas2013-03-14
| | | | | | | The error rule used to avoid backtracking with the U&'...' UESCAPE 'x' syntax bloated the flex tables, so refactor that. This patch makes the error rule shorter, by introducing a new exclusive flex state that's entered after parsing U&'...'. This shrinks the postgres binary by about 220kB.
* Add cost estimation of range @> and <@ operators.Heikki Linnakangas2013-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | The estimates are based on the existing lower bound histogram, and a new histogram of range lengths. Bump catversion, because the range length histogram now needs to be present in statistic slot kind 6, or you get an error on @> and <@ queries. (A re-ANALYZE would be enough to fix that, though) Alexander Korotkov, with some refactoring by me.
* Allow default expressions to be attached to columns of foreign tables.Tom Lane2013-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's still some discussion about exactly how postgres_fdw ought to handle this case, but there seems no debate that we want to allow defaults to be used for inserts into foreign tables. So remove the core-code restrictions that prevented it. While at it, get rid of the special grammar productions for CREATE FOREIGN TABLE, and instead add explicit FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error checks for the disallowed cases. This makes the grammar a shade smaller, and more importantly results in much more intelligible error messages for unsupported cases. It's also one less thing to fix if we ever start supporting constraints on foreign tables.
* Fix thinko in matview patch.Tom Lane2013-03-11
| | | | | | | "break" instead of "continue" suppressed view expansion for views appearing later in the range table. Per report from Erikjan Rijkers. While at it, improve the associated comment a bit.
* JSON generation improvements.Andrew Dunstan2013-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the following: json_agg(anyrecord) -> json to_json(any) -> json hstore_to_json(hstore) -> json (also used as a cast) hstore_to_json_loose(hstore) -> json The last provides heuristic treatment of numbers and booleans. Also, in json generation, if any non-builtin type has a cast to json, that function is used instead of the type's output function. Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Steve Singer. Catalog version bumped.
* Support writable foreign tables.Tom Lane2013-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the core-system infrastructure needed to support updates on foreign tables, and extends contrib/postgres_fdw to allow updates against remote Postgres servers. There's still a great deal of room for improvement in optimization of remote updates, but at least there's basic functionality there now. KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov and Laurenz Albe, and rather heavily revised by Tom Lane.
* Report pg_hba line number and contents when users fail to log inMagnus Hagander2013-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of just reporting which user failed to log in, log both the line number in the active pg_hba.conf file (which may not match reality in case the file has been edited and not reloaded) and the contents of the matching line (which will always be correct), to make it easier to debug incorrect pg_hba.conf files. The message to the client remains unchanged and does not include this information, to prevent leaking security sensitive information. Reviewed by Tom Lane and Dean Rasheed
* SP-GiST support of the range adjacent operator -|-Heikki Linnakangas2013-03-08
| | | | Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Jeff Davis.
* Fix infinite-loop risk in fixempties() stage of regex compilation.Tom Lane2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding of this function could get into situations where it would never terminate, because successive passes would re-add EMPTY arcs that had been removed by the previous pass. Rewrite the function completely using a new algorithm that is guaranteed to terminate, and also seems to be usually faster than the old one. Per Tcl bugs 3604074 and 3606683. Tom Lane and Don Porter
* Fix tli history file fetching, broken by the archive after crash recevery patch.Heikki Linnakangas2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we were about to enter archive recovery after crash recovery, we scanned the archive for the latest tli history file, and set the recovery target timeline to that. However, when we actually tried to read the history file, we would not fetch the file from the archive, because we were not in archive recovery yet. To fix, make readTimeLineHistory and existsTimeLineHistory to always fetch the file from archive if archive recovery is requested, even if we're not in archive recovery yet. Backpatch to 9.2. Mitsumasa KONDO
* Arrange to cache FdwRoutine structs in foreign tables' relcache entries.Tom Lane2013-03-06
| | | | | | | This saves several catalog lookups per reference. It's not all that exciting right now, because we'd managed to minimize the number of places that need to fetch the data; but the upcoming writable-foreign-tables patch needs this info in a lot more places.
* Code beautification for object-access hook machinery.Robert Haas2013-03-06
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* WAL-log the extension of a new empty MV heap which is being populated.Kevin Grittner2013-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | This page with no tuples is used to distinguish an MV containing a zero-row resultset of its backing query from an MV which has not been populated by its backing query. Unless WAL-logged, recovery and hot standby don't work correctly with what should be an empty but scannable materialized view. Fixes bugs reported by Fujii Masao in testing MVs on hot standby.
* Fix to_char() to use ASCII-only case-folding rules where appropriate.Tom Lane2013-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | formatting.c used locale-dependent case folding rules in some code paths where the result isn't supposed to be locale-dependent, for example to_char(timestamp, 'DAY'). Since the source data is always just ASCII in these cases, that usually didn't matter ... but it does matter in Turkish locales, which have unusual treatment of "i" and "I". To confuse matters even more, the misbehavior was only visible in UTF8 encoding, because in single-byte encodings we used pg_toupper/pg_tolower which don't have locale-specific behavior for ASCII characters. Fix by providing intentionally ASCII-only case-folding functions and using these where appropriate. Per bug #7913 from Adnan Dursun. Back-patch to all active branches, since it's been like this for a long time.
* Fix overflow check in tm2timestamp (this time for sure).Tom Lane2013-03-04
| | | | | | I fixed this code back in commit 841b4a2d5, but didn't think carefully enough about the behavior near zero, which meant it improperly rejected 1999-12-31 24:00:00. Per report from Magnus Hagander.
* Remove accidentally-committed .orig file.Kevin Grittner2013-03-04
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* Fix map_sql_value_to_xml_value() to treat domains like their base types.Tom Lane2013-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | This was already the case for domains over arrays, but not for domains over certain built-in types such as boolean. The special formatting rules for those types should apply to domains over them as well. Per discussion. While this is a bug fix, it's also a behavioral change that seems likely to trip up some applications. So no back-patch. Pavel Stehule
* Add a materialized view relations.Kevin Grittner2013-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and other physical properties like a table. The rule is only used to populate the table, references in queries refer to the materialized data. This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in many cases. Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining what is "fresh" data will be developed. At some point it may even be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of references to underlying tables, but that requires the other above-mentioned features to be working first. Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas. Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to implement sepgsql still pending.
* Get rid of any toast table when converting a table to a view.Tom Lane2013-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Also make sure other fields of the view's pg_class entry are appropriate for a view; it shouldn't have relfrozenxid set for instance. This ancient omission isn't believed to have any serious consequences in versions 8.4-9.2, so no backpatch. But let's fix it before it does bite us in some serious way. It's just luck that the case doesn't cause problems for autovacuum. (It did cause problems in 8.3, but that's out of support.) Andres Freund
* Fix SQL function execution to be safe with long-lived FmgrInfos.Tom Lane2013-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | fmgr_sql had been designed on the assumption that the FmgrInfo it's called with has only query lifespan. This is demonstrably unsafe in connection with range types, as shown in bug #7881 from Andrew Gierth. Fix things so that we re-generate the function's cache data if the (sub)transaction it was made in is no longer active. Back-patch to 9.2. This might be needed further back, but it's not clear whether the case can realistically arise without range types, so for now I'll desist from back-patching further.
* Cannot use WL_SOCKET_WRITEABLE without WL_SOCKET_READABLE.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | In copy-out mode, the frontend should not send any messages until the backend has finished streaming, by sending a CopyDone message. I'm not sure if it would be legal for the client to send a new query before receiving the CopyDone message from the backend, but trying to support that would require bigger changes to the backend code structure. Fixes an assertion failure reported by Fujii Masao.
* Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client. In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example, "\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout. This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3), to a human-readable string. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
* Add missing error check in regexp parser.Tom Lane2013-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | parseqatom() failed to check for an error return (NULL result) from its recursive call to parsebranch(), and in consequence could crash with a null-pointer dereference after an error return. This bug has been there since day one, but wasn't noticed before, probably because most error cases in parsebranch() didn't actually lead to returning NULL. Add the missing error check, and also tweak parsebranch() to exit in a less indirect fashion after a call to parseqatom() fails. Report by Tomasz Karlik, fix by me.
* Correct tense in log messagePeter Eisentraut2013-02-23
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* Add quotes to messagesPeter Eisentraut2013-02-22
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* Fix thinko in previous commit.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-22
| | | | | | We must still initialize minRecoveryPoint if we start straight with archive recovery, e.g when recovering from a normal base backup taken with pg_start/stop_backup. Otherwise we never consider the system consistent.
* If recovery.conf is created after "pg_ctl stop -m i", do crash recovery.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you create a base backup using an atomic filesystem snapshot, and try to perform PITR starting from that base backup, or if you just kill a master server and create recovery.conf to put it into standby mode, we don't know how far we need to recover before reaching consistency. Normally in crash recovery, we replay all the WAL present in pg_xlog, and assume that we're consistent after that. And normally in archive recovery, minRecoveryPoint, backupEndRequired, or backupEndPoint is set in the control file, indicating how far we need to replay to reach consistency. But if the server was previously up and running normally, and you kill -9 it or take an atomic filesystem snapshot, none of those fields are set in the control file. The solution is to perform crash recovery first, replaying all the WAL in pg_xlog. After that's done, we assume that the system is consistent like in normal crash recovery, and switch to archive recovery mode after that. Per report from Kyotaro HORIGUCHI. In his scenario, recovery.conf was created after "pg_ctl stop -m i". I'm not sure we need to support that exact scenario, but we should support backing up using a filesystem snapshot, which looks identical. This issue goes back to at least 9.0, where hot standby was introduced and we started to track when consistency is reached. In 9.1 and 9.2, we would open up for hot standby too early, and queries could briefly see an inconsistent state. But 9.2 made it more visible, as we started to PANIC if we see a reference to a non-existing page during recovery, if we've already reached consistency. This is a fairly big patch, so back-patch to 9.2 only, where the issue is more visible. We can consider back-patching further after this has received some more testing in 9.2 and master.
* Move relpath() to libpgcommonAlvaro Herrera2013-02-21
| | | | | | | This enables non-backend code, such as pg_xlogdump, to use it easily. The previous location, in src/backend/catalog/catalog.c, made that essentially impossible because that file depends on many backend-only facilities; so this needs to live separately.
* Remove useless variableAlvaro Herrera2013-02-21
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* Add postgres_fdw contrib module.Tom Lane2013-02-21
| | | | | | | | There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it basically works, and we need this to be present before we can do anything much with the writable-foreign-tables patch. So let's commit it and get on with testing. Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Tom Lane
* Fix yet another typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-20
| | | | Etsuro Fujita